I'm having a similar problem. I have my default language set to Japanese, and Japanese characters show up just fine in the body of posts, but they only show up as "???????" when I try to use Japanese characters for Forum or Sub-Forum Titles. I'm using 3.0.4. When I enter the Japanese characters in creating the Forum Titles, they enter in okay, but as soon as I hit "Submit," they turn to "?????". Is there any way to get foreign language characters to show up in the Forum titles?

kay.nguyen wrote:I used phpbb 2.0.16, I can use vietnamese every where in the forum like message body, Forum index, introduction of each room etc..

First piece of advice - you MUST update your software. Until you do, do NOT post a link to your forum, or it will get destroyed. I highly suggest you disable it until you have completed an update to at least version 2.0.23.

Your most likely problem is that v2 does not normally build the database with support for non-latin characters in subjects. This is one of the big changes in v3, so you may wish to consider an upgrade. At the very least, you will need to make sure that the topics table is set to UTF-8 encoding, although you will probably want to do this to all your tables.

I'm using 3.0.4. When I enter the Japanese characters in creating the Forum Titles, they enter in okay, but as soon as I hit "Submit," they turn to "?????". Is there any way to get foreign language characters to show up in the Forum titles?

Nojiri, you should ask this in the v3 support area, because the UTF-8 encoding used by version 3 in the database should handle the situation.